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• A Gripping Read

  
  Asymptotia — Authority: 124
  Theres a physics angle to the Tiger Woods business of last week (that Id not really been following since I was, thankfully, out of the country during the media blitz).A physics angle? Really? Surely in my attempts to show the science angle in everyday things Ive gone too far? Well, actually there is. So there was ...
  16 hours ago

• Confirmation Bias

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 146
  Richard Fernanez has some thoughts on AGW and Challenger. I wonder what Dick Feynman would have thought of the current situation? I can guess.
  18 hours ago

• Take This Paradigm

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 146
  …and shove it.Narrow intellectual gatekeeping is omnipresent in academia. Want to know why the government wastes hundreds of millions of dollars on math and science programs that never seem to improve the test scores of American students?[3] Part of the reason for this is that today’s K-12 educators—unlike ...
  20 hours ago

• How Green Is My Spaceship?

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 146
  Doug Messier is skeptical about the overhype from Virgin about their vehicle. So am I. Not that I care, of course. Of course, I think that the safety of hybrids is overhyped as well, and the tradeoff with operational costs isn’t that great. But maybe it takes overhype to be successful [...]
  20 hours ago

• Bubble fusion scientist debarred from federal funding

  
  Physics Today News Picks — Authority: 434
  Nature News : Rusi Taleyarkhan , of Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana , who claimed that he could perform bubble fusion in a table-top apparatus has been debarred from receiving federal funding for 28 months, according to the US Office of Naval Research .
  21 hours ago

• The Politicization Of The EPA

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 146
  Thoughts from an actual scientist at the agency. You know, one who actually believes in science, and that agency actions should be based on it?[Update a few minutes later]An open letter to the UN Secretary General, from a long list of scientists and engineers:Climate change science is in a period of ‘negative ...
  1 day ago

• Reducing His Carbon Footprint

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 146
  Just as though the left didn’t need another reason to hate Israel, Netanyahu has decided to give Kyopenhagen a pass. A good idea for a number of reasons, not least of which he was likely to be simply abused there, anyway, despite the leadership of his nation in many green energy technologies.
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• Frank Oppenheimers gift to science education

  
  Physics Today News Picks — Authority: 434
  San Francisco Chronicle : When physicist Frank Oppenheimer came back to the Bay Area from his Colorado ranch, he had a dream to create a new type of science museum. It would be a place of wonder, he told a Chronicle reporter, "where human perception and awareness of the natural world" would awaken curious young ...
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• Richard Dawkins Was Right!

  
  Scientific Blogging — Authority: 558
      It’s all true! He was right! He was totally, hopelessly wrong about selfish genes, but he was right about memes. Well…he was a little bit right. He was wrong to equate the evolution of memes to the evolution of organisms, meme evolution being Lamarckian in character. But he was right to point out the ...
  2 days ago

• Lukewarm

  
  Cosmic Variance — Authority: 121
  At this very moment the nations of the world are meeting in Copenhagen to discuss the Earth’s climate. 192 countries are represented, and for the next two weeks they will try to come up with a strategy to deal with climate change. Obama will show up in 10 days, as will other heads-of-state. Unfortunately, much of ...
  2 days ago

• And You Thought The Science Of Climate Fraud Was Bad?

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 146
  Check out the economics of it.
  2 days ago

• Don’t Panic!

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 146
  Thoughts on global warming, and cooling, from JoSH:From the perspective of the Holocene as a whole, our current hockeystick is beginning to look pretty dinky. By far the possibility I would worry about, if I were the worrying sort, would be the return to an ice age — since interglacials, over the past half million ...
  2 days ago

• The Gorilla Experiment

  
  The Reference Frame — Authority: 618
  Penny needs to be taught some physics by Sheldon. ;-) Meanwhile, Howard enjoys his new GF who enjoys Leonards experiments. Although some early quotes resembling Sheldons own analyses indicated that there was a chance for her, "F=ma" turned out to be well above her head already. ;-) However, Penny easily learns the ...
  2 days ago

• Environmental movement needs pragmatism

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 537
  Book Review: Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto by Stewart Brand Price: US$17.153 Hardcover: 336 page Publisher: Viking Adult (October 15, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0670021210 ISBN-13: 978-0670021215 Stewart Brand is an invigorating and challenging writer. He has a long ...
  2 days ago

• Cancer Experts Say Media Lacks Healthy Skepticism

  
  Scientific Blogging — Authority: 558
  In a recent Journal of the National Cancer Institute editorial, doctors expressed concern over the medias coverage of oncology research, citing examples of exaggerated fears, hopes, and a general lack of skepticism in the reporting.  The editorial points, for example, to the misleading coverage of a New England ...
  3 days ago

• Kathy Shaidle: Quote miner, barefaced liar

  
  ThinkingMeat — Authority: 127
  The utter dishonesty and blatant disregard for facts that the climate change deniers exhibit is no secret. Kathy Shaidle provides a sadly typical example of this mendacity. Shaidle first presents a claim by fellow wingnut Mark Steyn, claiming that there no global warming trend exists. She then carefully distorts a ...
  3 days ago

• The Fallout Continues

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 146
  Several physicists are asking the American Physical Society to rescind its 2007 endorsement of AGW:In 2007 the APS Council adopted a Statement on global warming (also reproduced at the tinyurl site mentioned above) that was based largely on the scientific work that is now revealed to have been corrupted. (The ...
  3 days ago

• More Evidence That These Are Religious Fanatics

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 146
  After doing yeoman’s duty in going through the CRU emails, Steve Hayward notes:How is it possible for a group of smart people to write over 1,000 e-mails over the course of a decade without a single shred of wit or humor in any of them?As the title says…And as Mark Steyn notes at the link, [...]
  4 days ago

• Scientists Behaving Badly

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 146
  Steve Hayward has a long, but useful piece on Climaquiddick. He’s been reading a lot of the emails. While it’s not clear whether or not AGW is happening, it’s very clear at this point that the field has been completely discredited, even if those promoting it don’t realize it.
  5 days ago

• Speaking Of Climate Change

  
  Transterrestrial Musings — Authority: 146
  …not to mention Jim Hansen. Is it the new Nazism? Thoughts over at AdamSmith.org.
  6 days ago

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